Thanks,
Appartently I was reading the man page wrong ! The entire section was to do
with /etc/inittab ! (I think it's still wrong since my inittab entry has no
-a and anyone can use Ctrl-Alt-Del !!!)
Anyway, the person I e-mailed (from the man page itself) suggested I use
'sudo' and this appears to work fine.
Owen
On Monday 11 December 2000 11:25 pm, you wrote:
> > I want to allow non-root users to shutdown and reboot the PC. According
> > to the shutdown man page :
> >
> > If shutdown is called with the -a argument (add this to the
> > invocation of shutdown in /etc/inittab), it checks to see
>
> - my /etc/inittab file contains...
> # Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE
> ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -a -t3 -r now
>
> > if the file /etc/shutdown.allow is present. It then com�
>
> # cat /etc/shutdown.allow
> root
> dwoods
>
> Thanks... Dan.
